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A.-L. FRANCE. Improvement in Shutter-Fasteners. No. 130,708. p763 Pate anted Aug. 20, 1872.

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DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF,

IVILLIAM MCOALL, AND WILLIAM K. STOOKLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN gHUTTER-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. E30,?0S dated August'20, 1872.

SPEGIFICATION.

I, ALBERT L. FRANCE, of Wilmington, connty of New Castle, State of Delaware, have invented an Improved Shutter-Fastening Device, of which the following is a specification:

Nature and Object of the Invention:

Description of the Accompanying Drmcz'ng.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lower portion of a window-frame with my improved fastening device as it appears when used for bowing the shutters Fig. 2, a sectional plan view of part of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, also asectional plan, showing the shutter held in two positions by the fastener; Fig. 4, an enlarged view, partly in section, of part of the retaining-andi'astenin g device.

General Description.

A represents a window'frame, of which a is the sill, and B B are two shutters hinged to the outside of the frame, and capable of being drawn inward against the latter or thrown outward, as usual. The shutter retaining-andfastening device consists mainly of a socketed plate, 0, secured to the window-sill, of an arm or latch, D, pivoted to the same, and of a catchplate, F, secured to the lower portion of the shutter, and having a number of holes, b, into any one of which the end I) of the arm or latch can be inserted. l

When it is desired to lock the shutters they are closed in against the frame and sill, and the end of the arm or latch, of which there is one for each shutter, is inserted into the outermost hole of its catch-plate; and if the shutters are to be bowed, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or held half-way open or thereabout, as indicatedby dotted lines in Fig. 3, the pivoted It is necessary that the latch should be conlatch isinserted into any one of the holes in the catch-plate, which will enable the shutter to be retairiedin the desired position. Tofasten the shutters back against the wall the latch is inserted into a rabbeted plate secured to the under edge or heel of the shutter, and not illustrated in the drawing, but shown and de scribed in my aforesaid patent of September nected to the plate 0 on the sillby auniversa-l joint, or by a joint of such a character as will' enable the said catch to be turned, and at the sametime to be raised and lowered in order to permit its introduction into andwithdrawal from the holes of the catch-plate. In my aforesaid patent this compound movement was obtained by hinging the latch, by means of a transverse pin, to arecessed standard or bolt, which was itself attached to and capable of turning in the socketed plate 0.

The object of my present invention is to dispense with the recessed standard or bolt, and to adapt the inner end of the latch directly to the socketed plate, so as to simplify the device and considerably reduce its cost.

In Fig. 4 the latch has a spherical enlarge.

ment, g, formed on the inner end, and adapted to a corresponding socket in the plate 0, which forms a universal joint. This permits the latch to be freely turned, and to be also raised and lowered.

C la im.

I The latch D of a single piece, with a ball at Witnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, JOHN K. RUrER'rUs. 

